May 29, 200620 yr Well last night at about 12:01 AM I went over to a friends house and we watched one of THE most amazing movies I have ever seen. I dont know how many of you have seen it but its called "Donnie Darko". You guys should all see it! Well to the point anyway I think that we should all have a place to post movies that have changed our lives or at least made us really think about things. So post away! Tell us all about our movies! Another one of mine is "The Boondock Saints" (It has nothing to do with the cartoons) -PERiON ARENAscape:turkey 120 7*hercAndrew_Gower 34 Mountain
May 29, 200620 yr I'd say Garden State, but I don't really know why... It just gives a different perspective on life. Fight Club definately makes you think about your purpose and making it meaningful, plus it's a good movie. The Butterfly Effect kind of makes you think about if you could change things what would you do, sort of reflection on life. Donnie Darko certainly made me think, but I'm still kind of baffled on the whole concept, not quite life changing for me.
May 29, 200620 yr Author Ya I really want to see the butterfly effect I havent gotten to see it yet I cant believe it! Well I also kind of forgot about it I remeber when I first saw the preview I was like I want to see that movie. Thanks for reminding me about it :) ARENAscape:turkey 120 7*hercAndrew_Gower 34 Mountain
May 29, 200620 yr Donnie Darko really confused me the first time I watched it, and watching it again did not really help, haha. It kinda blows your mind, that's the only way to describe it, but I love it :) Other mind-blowers, for me, include: - Requiem for a Dream - Fight Club - The Matrix - The Butterfly Effect - A Clockwork Orange I'm sure there's more I just can't think of them right now. :P By The_Jeppoz :wink:
May 29, 200620 yr A mind blower, but in a more subtle way, for me would have to be: Big Fish. :) This is how much you all raised for charity. Thank you.
May 29, 200620 yr - Requiem for a Dream - Fight Club - The Butterfly EffectThem and Donnie Darko. I'm highly tempted to include American History X in my list, but I'm not too sure on it. Didn't exactly have adverse effects on my life..
May 29, 200620 yr Fight Club, Good Will Hunting. Dreaming of that face againIt's bright, and blue, and shimmeringGrinning wideAnd comforting me with it's three warm and wild eyes
May 29, 200620 yr Author Wow I just forgot how much I need to see Fight Club. I always say I am going to see them but then I forget lol. Well I really think that Big Fish was a very interesting movie. I mean its nothing like Donnie Darko but there is definatley somethign to it. PERiON :) ARENAscape:turkey 120 7*hercAndrew_Gower 34 Mountain
May 29, 200620 yr well, donnie darko is my favourite movie movie, but i dont know if it "changed my life". it is really enertaining though :D
May 29, 200620 yr I don't think there's any movie that 'changed' my life. Maybe the Shawshank Redemption, as I seriously started watching movies after that one. Signature by Maurice SendakWhen the stars make you drool just like a pasta fazool, that's amore!
May 29, 200620 yr Hmmmm. Nothing has changed my life permanently. One of note is Memento, as for a few days after that I started forgetting things...It was so well characterized that for some reason I thought I was the main character. I gotta lay off the drugs, maybe. On second though, I think Star Wars probably changed my life, in conjuntion with the video game Dark Forces (based on Star Wars). The two combined to start my, as of now, lifelong love with both movies and PC games.
May 29, 200620 yr Renegade, also known as Blueberry. Those aren't just pretty visuals. Why should we buy postage stamps when we can make our own?aperson being
May 29, 200620 yr Wayne's World! Seriously, this movie is great. It really did change my life...pretty much got me into classic rock (*cough*Bohemian Rhapsody seen *cough*). "El que no arriesga no gana"
May 29, 200620 yr Dr. Strangelove is effective in using humour to get it's message about the idiocy of the nuclear arms race across, but for sheer brutality the movie you'll want to see is Threads. It's a pretty hard to find BBC TV movie based on studies by the British ministery of defense on the attack of a direct nuclear assault on the British isles. Everything is followed through the eyes of a pregnant woman. When the attacks finally hit, Britain sustains 29 million instant casualties, 7 million imminently fatal injuries and come out with 19 million short term survivors. And then it gets worse. Every preperation made, every bomb shelter build, every food storage, it's all proven useless. The emergency governement is completely cut off from the rest of the country, and complete and utter anarchy breaks out. The burned, irradiated, blubbering survivors struggle to scrape together what little food they can. Without instruction to do otherwise, the surviving governement troops open fire on anyone trying to get to governement food storages. There is no water, no heating, no fuel. All farming equipment is rendered useless. As nuclear winter sets in, humanity is reduced to a scrabbling, scarred mass trying desperately to survive. Not for the hope of a better future but simply because the endlessly hopeless and painful quest for survival, no matter how momentary, is all they know now. Then, a few years later, Ruth, the pregnant woman through whom we've been following the story, collapses and dies while working on the land. The last shot of her face shows a 30 year old woman looking three times her age. Her daughter, with nobody left who'll look after her, has no choice but to band up with a pair of boys. The trio spends their days scavenging, communicating through a primitive perversion of English simply because that's all they need to survive in post-nuclear Britain. Finally Ruth's daughter is raped by one of her companions, and she is forced to abandon them. She makes her way to a makeshift hospital, and on a bed that's little more than just rusted springs she gives birth to the result of years of radiation targeted directly at her ovaries. As a nurse hands her the little bundle of radiation mutant, she breathes in one deep gasp of air for a scream and the screen freezes before she can expel it. This is the lasting image Threads leaves us with. My Tip.It Times Articles (10 and counting) || The Varrock Library Author Index projectDo you dare to dream? - Part 19 added. || The Hospital (WIP) - New story!Necromagus looks like a viking ... with glasses.
May 30, 200620 yr The Rocky Horror Picture Show Requiem for a Dream The Rocky Horror Picture Show just made me go WTF and changed how I looked at things... Requiem for a Dream well.. if you've seen you'd know why
May 30, 200620 yr - Requiem for a Dream - Fight Club - The Butterfly EffectThem and Donnie Darko. I'm highly tempted to include American History X in my list, but I'm not too sure on it. Didn't exactly have adverse effects on my life.. You don't think The Matrix blew your mind, at least a little? I never thought that the world could actually be like that, making us seem like pawns in a larger game of life. Made me feel terribly insignificant. By The_Jeppoz :wink:
May 30, 200620 yr You don't think The Matrix blew your mind, at least a little? I never thought that the world could actually be like that, making us seem like pawns in a larger game of life. Made me feel terribly insignificant. I forgot about The Matrix... It's a great concept and makes you think about things for sure.
May 30, 200620 yr You don't think The Matrix blew your mind, at least a little? I never thought that the world could actually be like that, making us seem like pawns in a larger game of life. Made me feel terribly insignificant.Can't say it did. It was an interesting concept, but nothing that had drastic effects on how I live my life.
May 30, 200620 yr I forgot about Forrest Gump and Big Fish, both great movies. They deffinitely changed my life, espescially Forrest Gump. I love watching movies like that, they make you think about life in general alot. "El que no arriesga no gana"
May 30, 200620 yr Usual Suspects kinda just made me think more deeply into things, and made me change the way I percieve and presume things - Kevin Spacey being the person you would least suspect to be the bad guy, and then it turns out he is! Blow was an enjoyable film, and made me realise the importance of drugs in many peoples lives, and reminded me never to do them! I don't know what it is, but something keeps telling me you "own"?"When you're happy it's like you're a bird; you can fly. The only trouble is, you need other birds to fly with"
May 31, 200620 yr Usual Suspects kinda just made me think more deeply into things, and made me change the way I percieve and presume things - Mel Gibson being the person you would least suspect to be the bad guy, and then it turns out he is! You mean Kevin spacey? Mel Gibson has got nothing to do with the Usual Suspects. :P Signature by Maurice SendakWhen the stars make you drool just like a pasta fazool, that's amore!
May 31, 200620 yr Oh my God, Mel Gibson in the Usual Suspects :lol: Now that's a way to ruin a movie. This is how much you all raised for charity. Thank you.
May 31, 200620 yr The Green Mile The Matrix Hotel Rwanda The Constant Gardener Probably the films that have made me think the most after the credits rolled. "Da mihi castitatem et continentam, sed noli modo"
May 31, 200620 yr Usual Suspects kinda just made me think more deeply into things, and made me change the way I percieve and presume things - Mel Gibson being the person you would least suspect to be the bad guy, and then it turns out he is! You mean Kevin spacey? Mel Gibson has got nothing to do with the Usual Suspects. :P Lol thanks, edited. I don't know what it is, but something keeps telling me you "own"?"When you're happy it's like you're a bird; you can fly. The only trouble is, you need other birds to fly with"
May 31, 200620 yr Lol thanks, edited. Just doesn't seem to work when you got two posts quoting the original message :lol: :: Guess the Movie Contest Champion: pfilc23 ::
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